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World & Nation
Page 10
The Battalion
Monday,.
Shamir thwarts internal party crisi
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Tom Hiel
JERUSALEM (AP) - Prime
Minister Yitzhak Shamir defused
a crisis in the governing Likud
party Sunday by persuading For
eign Minister David Levy not to
resign in a feud over sharing pow
er.
Thd quarrel has threatened to
undercut Likud's chances in par
liamentary elections on June 23.
Shamir bowed to demands to
give Levys supporters more politi
cal jobs.
The agreement was reached
shortly before Levy was to submit
a resignation letter at the weekly
Cabinet session.
Both leaders claimed victory.
But it was unclear whether they
had fully resolved Likud's inter
nal squabbles or ended the tension
between Sephardic and Ashkenaz
ic Jews that surfaced in the trading
of ethnic insults over Levy's stand.
Mends fences with foreign minister
to better party's re-election chances
Levy, the Cabinet's strongest
supporter of the U.S.-sponsored
Middle East peace talks, had
strongly criticized Shamir for the
strains in Israeli-U.S. ties over ne
gotiating strategies. But their
agreement made no mention of
that issue.
The Moroccan-born Levy, 53, is
a hero for many Sephardics, or
Jews of Middle Eastern derivation
who are Likud's strongest con
stituency.
He was under strong pressures
from Sephardic Jews to leave the
party to protest being slighted by
the establishment Ashkenazic
Jews, those with European ori
gins.
Levy threatened on March 29 to
quit the Cabinet after losing
Likud's No. 2 spot to Defense
Minister Moshe Arens.
The threats of defection by
Levy supporters triggered concern
within Likud that the party could
be fatally wounded in its election
fight with the Labor party, which
has been running ahead in public
opinion polls. Likud has dominat
ed Israeli politics since 1977.
Shamir took the unusual step of
inviting Israeli reporters to wit
ness the fence mending with Levy.
He told them he was "happy to
announce . . . that the foreign min
ister and myself reached agree
ment this morning about all the
differences between us.''
As a result, he said, "the
will continue to appear unitaii
unified in the government
throughout the country."
Still, the accord did nots<J
everyone in Likud.
Arens, apparently concfiL
he was being outmaneuverejB
Levy, denounced the compr:-F’
at a meeting with Shamir as
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the truce did not gettothehe:
the feud, which has dominal
raeli news reports for the
week.
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to Shamir's description oft! .cover "s
pute as "a joke" and Levy's that a Ne
plaint that he was beingtreal postal aj
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Office battles for war on drugs fundi
Fires warning shots at apathetic Cabinet agencies to budget additional
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Office of Na- committees by the office of ONDCP director Housing and Urban Developm
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the gover
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melodies” BILLBOARD MAGAZINE
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Office of Na
tional Drug Control Policy has waged intense,
behind-the-scenes battles to force six recalci
trant Cabinet agencies to seek $115.3 million in
additional funds for the war on drugs, accord
ing to documents obtained by The Associated
Press.
The office's real power lies in its ability to
expose agencies seeking what it believes is too
little money to carry out the president's anti
drug strategy.
But revealing such problems requires a
breach of the administration's normal reluc
tance to tell outsiders — that is. Congress —
about family squabbles.
Nevertheless, the drug control policy office
threatened to do just that late last year after
less drastic measures failed to persuade six de
partments to increase their anti-drug budget
proposals for fiscal 1993.
After the warning, the six increased their to
tal budget requests by $115.3 million, most of
that for drug demand reduction programs, ac
cording to the documents sent to the Senate Ju
diciary and House Government Operations
committees by the office of ONDCP director
Bob Martinez.
Martinez said last week that the Bush ad
ministration had reouested a total $12.7 billion
in drug-related funding for fiscal 1993.
Thus far, the office has not used its ultimate
weapon: sending letters signed by Martinez to
a department head declaring the department's
drug-war funding inadequate.
Instead, it has fired warning shots.
"We've threatened by sending over drafts
of unsigned letters that would decertify agen
cies, and that got an answer," Bruce Carnes,
ONDCP 7 s director of planning, budget and ad
ministration, told a Senate panel last week.
"There we've got definite big time power."
Housing and Urban Development, Vetft I
Affairs and Labor received draft letters.
After receiving the letter, the Education!
partment boosted its proposal for Drug-
Schools and Communities grants by $6L : :
lion.
Because the congressional committees re
quested the drafts as well as Martinez's signed
letters certifying every department's final bud
get request as adequate, the threats to expose
the reluctant drug warriors became, uninten
tionally, public.
The documents show the secretaries of Edu
cation, Health and Human Services, Treasury,
Other increases were:
•Treasury, $14.9 million for IRS mi
laundering investigations.
• VA, $11.4 million for veterans' drug::
ment.
•Labor, $10 million for its Employmen:
Training Administration program.
•HUD, $8.25 million for public hoi
drug elimination grants.
•HHS, $8.2 million for the Adminisl
for Children and Families and the Centers!
Disease Control.
Department representatives denieda
were slackers in the war on drugs. Insl:
they said they faced tight budget constrcj
and that the volleys between them
drug policy office were part of the no
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